I’m Colin Kloecker. SaltationAI is my consulting practice and lab.

I get excited when a small team is taking on a problem bigger than the tools and time available to them. The people doing the work already have the expertise, values, and ambition. AI can give that more reach. I help them find where it fits and build a way of working their team can understand, use, and change themselves, so more of their time goes to the parts that require their judgment.

The lab is where I take on problems I don’t yet know how to solve and follow the larger questions behind them. How can AI carry expert judgment? How can its work be checked? What should remain in human hands?

Trying to figure out where AI fits your work? → See what’s in the lab →

Case Study

What this looks like in practice

I work with a firm that does strategic planning for city and county governments. Their process involves intensive interviews, sometimes a dozen or more per project, with elected officials, department heads, and staff, synthesizing everything into strategic plans.

4+ hours

Processing time per interview before the change

Meeting notes were transcribed, synthesized, and formatted by hand before the planning work could begin.

Under 1 hour

Processing time per interview after the change

A workflow built in the firm's existing tools now supports transcription, theme extraction, and structured drafts.

36+ hours recovered

Across a typical 12-interview project

The firm owns the workflow, and its team can use and adapt it inside the systems they already know.

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How We Work

Three ways to work together.

The Brief

$500

A focused discovery session. We map how the work moves, identify two or three places AI may fit, and leave you with a prompt to start building. The $500 credits toward the Build.

The Build

$3,750

Four weeks of working sessions to build a customized AI environment around how your team works, using tools you already have. The prompts and instructions are yours.

Ongoing partnership

Scoped together

For challenges larger than a four-week build. I can join your team as an ongoing AI partner, helping set direction, improve systems, and take on new projects as the work changes.

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Colin Kloecker, founder of SaltationAI
About

Hi, I'm Colin.

Before SaltationAI, I made documentary films, publications, exhibitions, and artist-scientist collaborations with universities and water treatment facilities. The work taught me to learn a complicated system from the people inside it before building anything.

That is still how I work. I listen first, understand how the work moves, then help the team decide where AI belongs.

More about me→

Client testimonials

Most consultants show up with a solution already in mind. Colin listened first. He understood how our process actually worked before suggesting anything. Now our team focuses on insights, not transcription. Honestly, the work is better. Our findings have an authenticity that our old notes couldn't capture. It all runs on tools we built together.

Marv Weidner

CEO, Managing Results, LLC

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Tell me about the work.

If your team is losing time to a process that should work better, tell me where it gets stuck. I’ll tell you whether I think AI belongs in the answer.

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Prefer email? colin@saltation.ai